Accountancy

Program and courses 

The program focuses on the role of accounting information in facilitating decision-making, planning, and control.

• Strong links with practice. The content of this program is established in close cooperation with leading (multinational) companies, and is regularly updated to reflect current practices in business. You will study real cases, work on assignments and frequently attend lectures of important corporate guest speakers. You will also have the opportunity to do an internship as a practical and in-depth basis for your Master File Accountancy.
• Reinvented Master Thesis. Instead of one extensive document at the end of your studies, the workload will be spread smoothly across the Master's year.  Our so-called Master File Accountancy consists of multiple consecutive reports which complement each other in terms of their learning goals: a Business Application in which academic research is used to give advice on a real-life company problem; a Replication Study that focuses on the collection and analysis of data; and a Research Note in which students perform their own academic research study.
• Train your professional skills and learn how to negotiate or communicate with business partners or advance your Excel skills.
• Two tracks allow you to specialize in either:
  • Auditing
    Are you interested in verifying financial and non-financial information of organizations? Do you want to help providing accurate information to investors, banks, and other stakeholders to make relevant business decisions? Then the track Auditing is the right one for you.
  • Business Analysis and Control
    Do you want to plan and forecast the business activities of a company? Do you want to prepare data to support internal decision-making? This track offers that for you.
• Ambitious Accountancy students can also apply for the following:
  - The Extended Master's Program, which adds a traineeship of half a year to the regular Master's program.
  - The QTEM network program, which adds an additional year to the program which you spend at a QTEM partner university and corporate partner.

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Career prospects

Upon graduating you will receive a Master of Science with a specialization in Auditing or Business Analysis and Control.  Your Master's degree in Accountancy from Tilburg University opens outstanding career opportunities, whether your future is in accounting, business, finance, or higher management, here in the Netherlands or internationally.

This Master's degree is also an excellent stepping stone to the Post-Master Accountancy, European Post-Master Accountancy and the Post-Master's program Executive Master of Finance and Control.

Graduates work or start for example as:

• Senior Business Controller at PostNL
• Audit Trainee at Ministry of Finance
• Manager at KPMG
• Finance Trainee at ABN AMRO
• Business Intelligence Consultant at Achmea Holding
• Financial Analyst at ASML Netherlands

Alumni facts

• Average number of months until first paid job: 1.83
• Finds a job within 3 months after graduation: 83%
• Gross monthly income one year after graduation: € 2,770

Source: National Alumni Survey, 2021 | n=12

More on your career prospects

Application and admission

This Master’s program starts:

End of August and end of January

Best preparatory programs:

• Most Bachelor’s programs of Tilburg University School of Economics of Management will qualify
• Bachelors with a solid basis in Mathematics and Statistics, Academic Training, Accounting, Finance, and Economics, Management or Marketing

Pre-Master’s program:

Available for both Research University students and students from a Dutch University of Applied Sciences (HBO). 

Tuition fees and scholarships

International students, please find all information about the tuition fees and the scholarships available.

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